Business Green: A senior figure within the German government has today confirmed he is pushing for cuts of up to 17 per cent in feed-in tariffs for solar power, further raising the prospect that deep cuts in renewable energy subsidies will be announced later this week. “Regarding the photovoltaic (industry), cuts of 16 to 17 per cent can be made,” German Economy Minister Rainer Bruederle told Reuters, although he was keen to emphasise that “this is my opinion, this is not yet the position of the …